The last bit excites me, because I know there were a dozen players in Ireland the recruiters had another look at, and why not if we can.

I dont think the Cat B is anywhere in the soft cap.
Its the 2nd Irishman (yes Country specific) who goes under the salary similar to a Cat A, 'Rookie' in the cap. IIRC

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LOB does simply not have the capacity to play in games like the one against Melbourne i.e. Finals type game. The intensity and physicality of it is out of his range. He is not mentally built to perform in that caldron for contest after contest.

Regards Cazzesman

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Yep. LOB has always been on the fringes. Now so many have gone past him he has no chance of getting back in the side


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Serious question.

Can a player learn it or they may just be late developers? Can a new coaching group/culture change this. I am sure the coaches address the issues. Can a change in role and confidence make a difference?

Serious answer, many of us were able to observe this after only a small handful of games.

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Reported in the AGe that we've settled on 194-centimetre running machine Matt Duffy, who plays for Longford, and highly rated Kerry under-20 footballer Rob Monahan.

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GCS have 3 Academy players that Cal Twomey ranks as Top 12 Draft Picks

Massive opportunity to grab 1 or 2 early draft picks by trading picks with them. Given our list adding a couple of early guns would be awesome. All talk is Top 10 is excellent

WCE are also keen to trade Pick 1 for numerous picks. Harley Reid would be a good addition

It’s an absolute disgrace that GC can get access to 3 top 12 players. Blatantly rigged competition to favour the northern clubs. To think that they openly gave Sydney an extra $1m in the salary cap for years, now they give them stacked access to young talent. Joke of an organisation


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Can we get more picks?
Can Dow, Fisher get us picks in the 30-40s?
I'd swap next years First Round pick. Will be Pick 18 anyway

It certainly is.
The AFL only seems to be concerned with a handful of clubs, we are not one of them clearly.
I cannot believe that there was not a big outcry when they were handed 3 years of draft concessions and were given an extra zone.
I am sure they have their grubby hands all over the Hardwick situation too.

The more I look at it Farmer the more I'm convinced we might take only 2 picks in the draft: both good picks, and possibly a promotion from rookie list if needed to fit in the 2 Irish boys (assuming both Cat B but 2nd one's salary has to be factored as a rookie cost, hopefully not a spot on rookie list)

Draft pick #1 2023 First round

Draft Pick #2 2003 to be made up of 2024 first rounder and the later picks 64, 70, 84.

Giving us two great kids.

Not sure about FA being an absolute, but we will see how the season rolls out and who we want to keep for another year. Hopefully we can trade Fisher for another pick and if there's no takers he may be given away to create a spot for a promoted rookie.

If we can't trade Fisher (because he's on contract), and we decide to keep Dow on minimum wage, 3 of the OOC players Plowman, Marchbank, Fogarty, Honey and Philp must be delisted or demoted to rookie list to make room for 3 new players on the Primary List.

Our depth is looking like quality and our developing players still developing. I would prefer Plowman and Fogarty delisted and Marchbank demoted to rookie list and keep Honey and Philp TBH.

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Corrupting the outcome is part of the Commission's DNA. The AFL Commission have their grubby hands over everything and anything that's contentious.

Prefer the free market approach than being run by a Commission who lacks transparency and not representing all teams equally.

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Surely Bondi it would need to be Honey or Philp to be rookied instead of Marchbank given he is being selected on a consistent basis (now fit)? Philp hasn't played in the one's at all this year.

It's heading that way but I think it will be all about what picks we can get

At the moment we have 13 and 60 something
Will we get anything if Dow and Fisher go and will we trade future picks?
Cook has said we will go to the draft and a FA. Do this, get some more young talent in will help our Salary Cap and balance our list
We have also done well with late and rookie picks so I hope we go down that path again

I still see a minimum 6-8 changes to refresh the list and fill some holes

Plowman Honey Philp Ed will leave/retire
Dow will likely be traded
S.Durdin will likely be kept if we can't land another key defender
Fogarty will be interesting. Been good but still only a role player
Marchbank Fisher have question marks for different reasons

My take is we go to the draft for about 3
Get a FA
Maybe a DFA
Then rookies & pre season drafts

I agree Farmer.

Also worth noting we will need some later picks next year in order to build enough points for the Camporeale twins (if we choose to take them) so swapping non-core players for future picks might be something the club considers

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Sources: Carlton's interest in Jade Gresham has cooled significantly in recent weeks, with the club's focus staying with the draft, internal improvement & options that may come up later in the year. Any move for the restricted free agent were described as 'highly unlikely'.

That is good news. not sold on Gresham

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Happy about that - and look forward to proper development of the new Irish lads.

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Excellent….

now about these Irish Boys and payment…
how many sack of spuds is it going to take…?

because i can shoot down the highway
to Thorpdale…those lads won’t know what
hit them…!

SURE there’s ya common garden variety
Koo Wee Rup spud…but ya Thorpdale starch…?

that’s where it’s at I’m telling yas…!

pure potato bliss…!


kindest regards tommi

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Yep , there's spuds , and there's Thorpdale spuds . And the Warrnambool spuds run a close second . Daylight after that .

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